html5 video not working

[lingnand]

I'm using gtk3 vimb in the high-dpi branch and the html5 videos are not working (on Arch Linux). I tried compiling with gtk2 and it still doesn't work.

[fanglingsu]

Hi,
I don't know if all these packages are required, but I've installed and html5 videos are displayed.

# pacman -Q | grep gstreamer
gstreamer 1.2.3-1
gstreamer0.10 0.10.36-3
gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.23-8
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.23-8
gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.36-2
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.36-2
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.13-2
gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.31-5
gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.31-5

[lingnand]

Unfortunately even with all these packages installed I still cannot view
html5 videos...

On 20/03, Daniel Carl wrote:

Hi,
I don't know if all these packages are required, but I've installed and html5 videos are displayed.

# pacman -Q | grep gstreamer
gstreamer 1.2.3-1
gstreamer0.10 0.10.36-3
gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.23-8
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.23-8
gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.36-2
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.36-2
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.13-2
gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.31-5
gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.31-5

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[fanglingsu]

You are rigth, html5 videos do not work at the time, independent if vimb is compiled with GTK2 or GTK3, event an older version of vimb does not play the html5 videos. On a first view I think this issue is not a fault in vimb, because the orlder versions do also not work.

[fanglingsu]

This page works for me http://gstconf.ubicast.tv/videos/gstreamer-webkit-html5-and-real-time-communication/

[fanglingsu]

But the video does not play.

[fanglingsu]

Sorry, I was so tired. This page I used for testing if html5 videos work as I setup my new laptop http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody/test.html. This worked for me some month ago. Now, this does not work anymore, even surf (another light webkit browser) does not play the video. So I guess that the issue is more related to general system configuration or gtk or webkit.
I found following im my logs

[2014-03-04 00:22] [PACMAN] upgraded webkitgtk (2.2.5-1 -> 2.2.5-2)
[2014-03-04 00:22] [PACMAN] upgraded webkitgtk2 (1.10.2-8 -> 2.2.5-2)

The second line looks strange for me, the version changed from 1.10.2 to 2.2.5. After I downgraded to webkitgtk2 1.10.2-8 the html5 videos work well. Seems that there is an issue with the webkit version. But a downgrade to webkitgtk-2.2.5-1 for the built for GTK3 does not work, so the issue was introduced in an earlier version of webkit.

[fanglingsu]

I don't understand the differences between the gstreamer packages and the gst-* packages, but after installation of gst-plugins-base and gst-plugins-good the video runs fine with GTK2 and GTK3.

[lingnand]

Brilliant! Finally can watch the videos now. Wondering what's wrong with the webkit development though..

[jeaye]

I spent a long time trying to get this working on my Slackware machine and ended up with a weird solution. In short, even though I'm using ffmpeg, as opposed to libav, I need the gst-libav plugin (the gst-ffmpeg plugin doesn't cut it) in order for video to work.

For the Slackware users out there, this is my gst* related package listing (though all of these may not be needed, the libav plugin certainly is and was not obvious):

┌─(✓)[jeaye@darkstar]─[~]
└──╼ ls -1 /var/log/packages/gst*
/var/log/packages/gst1-libav-1.4.5-x86_64-1_SBo
/var/log/packages/gst1-plugins-bad-1.4.5-x86_64-1_SBo
/var/log/packages/gst1-plugins-base-1.4.5-x86_64-1_SBo
/var/log/packages/gst1-plugins-good-1.4.5-x86_64-1_SBo
/var/log/packages/gst1-plugins-ugly-1.4.5-x86_64-1_SBo
/var/log/packages/gst-ffmpeg-0.10.13-x86_64-2_SBo
/var/log/packages/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23-x86_64-3_SBo
/var/log/packages/gst-plugins-base-0.10.36-x86_64-2
/var/log/packages/gst-plugins-good-0.10.31-x86_64-5
/var/log/packages/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-x86_64-2_SBo
/var/log/packages/gstreamer-0.10.36-x86_64-2
/var/log/packages/gstreamer1-1.4.5-x86_64-1_SBo

[shioyama]

thanks @jeaye that fixed this issue for me!

[MagnusMWW]

Installing gstreamer1-plugins-libav on openbsd solved this issue for me as well. Thanks @jeaye !

[samhh]

I can't seem to get HTML5 video to work on my installation of vimb on Arch. Here's the --bug-info:

Version:         3.6.0
WebKit compile:  2.26.2
WebKit run:      2.28.1
GTK compile:     3.24.13
GTK run:         3.24.17
libsoup compile: 2.68.3
libsoup run:     2.70.0
Extension dir:   /usr/lib/vimb

My repro is vimb 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S7B18GqdY0', though I've experienced the same on other sites, for example on Gfycat embeds on Reddit.

With these installed:

$ pacman -Q | rg gst
gst-plugins-base 1.16.2-1
gst-plugins-base-libs 1.16.2-1
gstreamer 1.16.2-1

The YouTube page says that my browser doesn't recognise any of the formats available. If I additionally install gst-libav then the page starts to load as if video is available, and then I get Webview Crashed. There is nothing output to the terminal in which the process was started.

Let me know what else I can do to help debug this, cheers.

Edit: Similar behaviour on some other pages that don't appear to have any HTML5 video content, such as Twitter.

[fanglingsu]

@samhh I can view the linked video also on arch. That is what I have on my system. but I'm not sure if all packages are required or not.

$ pacman -Q | grep gst
gst-libav 1.16.2-1
gst-plugins-bad 1.16.2-7
gst-plugins-bad-libs 1.16.2-7
gst-plugins-base 1.16.2-1
gst-plugins-base-libs 1.16.2-1
gst-plugins-good 1.16.2-3
gst-plugins-ugly 1.16.2-3
gstreamer 1.16.2-1
gstreamer-vaapi 1.16.2-1

[samhh]

Aha! gstreamer-vaapi did the trick, many thanks. 😄